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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Weiss Amphitheater (USA) 77° 04' 00.0" S 126° 06' 00.0" W
Name ID: 133544 Place ID: 15860

An amphitheater-like caldera, 2 mi wide and breached at the southern side, occupying the south-central part of Mount Sidley, in the Executive Committee Range, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy trimetrogon photography, 1958-60. Named by US-ACAN for Bernard D. Weiss, Meteorologist-in-Charge at Byrd Station, 1959.

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